Chapter 2 - EIGHT FROM NINE LEAVES ONE-3

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"I could not get anything out of her, but I thought, all the same, that I had better let her in." "Quite right. Where is she?" "In the drawing-room. I've put on the lights." Lupin walked briskly across the hall and opened the door of the drawing-room: "What are you talking about?" he said, to his man. "There's no one here." "No one here?" said Achille, running up. And the room, in fact, was empty. "Well, on my word, this takes the cake!" cried the servant. "It wasn't twenty minutes ago that I came and had a look, to make sure. She was sitting over there. And there's nothing wrong with my eyesight, you know." "Look here, look here," said Lupin, irritably. "Where were you while the woman was waiting?" "In the hall, governor! I never left the hall for a second! I should have seen her

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